Announcements and Meetings
- XYZ public working draft announced 00 Month 2004 comments due 00 Month 2004
- Face-to-face meeting 00 Month 2004, registration closes 22 Month 2004
Past announcements are listed in WAI Meetings History and Press and Document Releases on the WAI Events page.
Upcoming Meetings
UAWG meets by teleconference teleconference meets approximately twice a month on Thursdays at 2pm Boston (USA) local time (19:00 UTC/GMT) for 60 minutes. Check the schedule below for telecon meeting dates. Extra telecons maybe scheduled at other times. The teleconference is on the Zakim bridge at: +1-617-761-6200, code 8294. We will also meet on IRC: irc.w3.org, port 6665, channel #ua.
UAWG meets face-to-face several times per year.
Upcoming teleconferences:
- Day 00 Month 2004
- (no teleconference on Day 00 Month 2004)
- Day 00 Month 2004
- Day 00 Month 2004
- Day 00 Month 2004
- Day 00 Month 2004
- Day 00 Month 2004
Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Current Work
@@ gives "heartbeat" info by including dates, e.g., "For January through March 20XX, WG is doing XYZ"
- XYZ working draft
- XYZ working draft
- XYZ working draft
Lists of upcoming and previous deliverables:
Publications
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Recommendation, published December 2002
- Implementation reports
- Draft test suite
- UAWG comments on XHTML 2.0 (6 May 2003 Working Draft)
About UAWG
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines explain to user agent developers how to make their products more accessible to people with disabilities and for increasing usability for all users.
For more information, see About UAAG, an introduction to the User Agents Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) that includes links to related documents such as the Techniques, FAQ, Checkpoints, and translations.
Charter
- UAWG Charter Draft, December 2001 proposes to continue to support developers in their implementation of UAAG requirements, develop test suites to support evaluation and to explore potential new requirements for UAAG
Comments on the draft charter are welcome, please send comments to the working group e-mail list or the Chair, listed below.
Contacts
- Chair:
- W3C Team Contact:
Mailing List
- UAWG Mail Archive - is a public archive of the UAWG mailing list.
Membership
- How to Join UAWG- UAWG participation is open to W3C Member organizationa and those invited by the Chair to participate.
Additional Information
Press and other coverage of UAAG 1.0
The W3C Communications Team also issued a press release and list of testimonials to accompany the publication of the Recommendation.
- Maccessibility.com: OBEY UAAG, Part 0: Understanding UAAG and OBEY UAAG, Part 1: Configuring Safari discuss UAAG requirements in the context of evaluating the Safari browser.
- EWeek: Making the Web More Accessible (5 Jan 2003)
- Computerwire: W3C Sets Standards for Browser and Player Accessibility (20 Dec 2002)
- XML.com: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (and for XML.com on Techniques for UAAG 1.0)
- Cover Pages: W3C Publishes User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a Recommendation
- CNET: W3C finalizes disability guidelines (17 Dec 2002)
- InfoWorld: W3C promotes Web access for disabled (17 Dec 2002)
- Internet News: W3C To Open Web to Those With Disabilities (17 Dec 2002)
Related Work
- Component Extension (CS) API requirements 1.0
- Education and Outreach "Alternative Browser" Page
- User Agent Support for Accessibility. This document lists known user agent support for "Until user agent..." clauses of the the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Recommendation.
- User Survey: Browsers and scripts
- Web Content Guidelines Working Group
- Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group
- W3C Technical Reports
- Some information maintained by other organizations about user agent support for various technologies: